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While running a product design studio that also creates Limited Edition pieces available to galleries, museums and collectors, Shawn-Ian Bruce has attracted international acclaim for his functional and conceptual handcrafted furniture designs. ‘Push-Over’, a stool with six different heights depending on how you turn it over, is composed from one seamless piece of [...]

Translating objects into stories and experiences has been good for ‘environmental architect’ Sami Hayek, who runs his own multidisciplinary design practice. If the Hayek surname sounds familiar, it is hardly because his sister is actress Salma Hayek. His early bentwood furniture’s fluid speech is what first intrigued design aficionados.
A recent exclusive limited edition collection, [...]

Award-winning furniture designer Reza Feiz is self-taught, which is unusual in the world of high-end design. Nonetheless, Feiz and his Phase brand have been resoundingly embraced. His work, which began with the signature minimalist cork covered cube chairs called bbc ($2300-2700 at Twentieth on Beverly), has been shown worldwide garnering international accolades [...]

Founded in Pasadena by Swiss/British product designer Dominic Symons and Indonesian graphic designer Melissa Sunjaya-Symons as a multidisciplinary design studio, “the studio now designs, manufactures, and distributes simple solutions to daily problems with a constant drive to transform even the most everyday items into objects of desire.” It sounds a tad all-encompassing but [...]

Gregg Fleishman, a creative Culver City icon for over thirty-two years, is like the Einstein of furniture designers. Fleishman, sporting a worn baseball cap and an unassuming flannel shirt, truly is a genius craftsman using geometry and function as his guide. (He’s even invented a new word: Rhombicube) His colorful futuristic and eco-friendly European [...]